Documentary News Letter (1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Documentary News Letter
Date:
1940
Publisher:
London, Film Centre
Volume:
Documentary News Letter (1940)
Leaf #:
00011
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
United Kingdom and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

January 1940 34 So ho oCi\:.arG j^oQcion Price 3cl Issued only to privr.os suUGoribers, DOJU:.L.lJTAi^Y I^IiA/S LETTER Gonti/]ues the policy and purpose of v;oRLD Fiii'.i ij£r;/s by ezoressing the docu'iisnte.ry idea EDITORIAL 30ARD: Thomas Baird Jrthijj? Elton John Gr i er son Paul Ro tha ■ Ba s i 1 V.t igh t xUBLISrlfc.B.BY FlLl,i CE^xT'RE , LOxiDOil, IN J^SSOClATIOE wITH Al'I^RICJi: FiE: CEETER, h.LV/ YOrX. V/AR AI.-3 FOR BOCU 1.1 E N T A R Y For ten yeers, ,3roups of peo^^le in vario^:.s countries have been reporting, analysing and docujr.enting contenporsry social proolenis. For this they have developed nevv techniques. Sone of these still rely on the printed -.'yord; the Arierican and British Gallup Surveys, P.E.Po, iviass Observation are ready ezairiples. But tV'io relatively ne?i/ media have been found especially suitable Radio and Film. Radio has made its greatest advance in the U.S.A. , Film in Great Britain, In both, after much ezperiiiient and research, dramatic techniques have been created. Audiences -and spheres of influence have been investigated, classified, and captured. More than r.oderate successes have been achieved. The doc^-jnentary idea (dramatisation of fact) is no longer merely theory. It has become a practical weapon in the drive towards social progress.